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144180Babes At The Museum - Margot at New Museumhttp://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2015/11/10/margot-at-new-museum/
http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2015/11/10/margot-at-new-museum/#commentsTue, 10 Nov 2015 05:58:47 +0000adminhttp://www.babesatthemuseum.com/?p=6074 She very slowly ricocheted from wall to wall, soaking in each painting, unconcerned with the cluttered surrounding of weekend art seekers. Margot is a graduate of NYU’s Gallatin School and recently started a job at The Cultivist. She not only came for Jim Shaw’s survey exhibition at the New Museum but also got a docent tour by none other than the artist himself. Impossible to relinquish the impulse to take her photo, we loved Margot’s casual elegance. However, what drew us in even more was her combat boots and flannel skirt combo. It tapped into our soft side for 90s tv nostalgia, giving us flash backs to My So-Called Life’s teenage heroine and grunge maven Angela Chase. (photo by Xavier Aaronson) ]]>

She very slowly ricocheted from wall to wall, soaking in each painting, unconcerned with the cluttered surrounding of weekend art seekers. Margot is a graduate of NYU’s Gallatin School and recently started a job at The Cultivist. She not only came for Jim Shaw’s survey exhibition at the New Museum but also got a docent tour by none other than the artist himself. Impossible to relinquish the impulse to take her photo, we loved Margot’s casual elegance. However, what drew us in even more was her combat boots and flannel skirt combo. It tapped into our soft side for 90s tv nostalgia, giving us flash backs to My So-Called Life’s teenage heroine and grunge maven Angela Chase. (photo by Xavier Aaronson)

]]>http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2015/11/10/margot-at-new-museum/feed/0image/jpegKrickie at MoMA PS1http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2015/11/08/krickie-at-moma-ps1/
http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2015/11/08/krickie-at-moma-ps1/#commentsSun, 08 Nov 2015 23:55:16 +0000adminhttp://www.babesatthemuseum.com/?p=6049This is Krickie. It’s a name that’s impossible to forget. She collects vintage clothing and came to the MoMA PS1 for a stroll through the arts. Krickie was spotted on the main floor but agreed to walk up to the top floor so we could be surrounded by the colossal formica pieces by Louise Lawyler. (Photo by Xavier Aaronson) ]]>

This is Krickie. It’s a name that’s impossible to forget. She collects vintage clothing and came to the MoMA PS1 for a stroll through the arts. Krickie was spotted on the main floor but agreed to walk up to the top floor so we could be surrounded by the colossal formica pieces by Louise Lawyler. (Photo by Xavier Aaronson)

]]>http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2015/11/08/krickie-at-moma-ps1/feed/0image/jpegSerena at New Museumhttp://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2015/10/11/serena-at-new-museum/
http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2015/10/11/serena-at-new-museum/#commentsSun, 11 Oct 2015 20:46:27 +0000adminhttp://www.babesatthemuseum.com/?p=6039Serena’s from Berlin — but made sure to specify that she was born in NYC — has impeccable taste in cute beanies and future chic skirts, while generally giving off a casual cool femininity that’s undeniable no matter how many striking women you’ve encountered in your life. She’s currently doing an internship at Independent Curators International before she returns to school to hopefully study art. While we can’t stop drooling over her Ohne Titel skirt — German for “untitled” — what she was most excited about were her new chromed out kicks.]]>

Serena’s from Berlin — but made sure to specify that she was born in NYC — has impeccable taste in cute beanies and future chic skirts, while generally giving off a casual cool femininity that’s undeniable no matter how many striking women you’ve encountered in your life. She’s currently doing an internship at Independent Curators International before she returns to school to hopefully study art. While we can’t stop drooling over her Ohne Titel skirt — German for “untitled” — what she was most excited about were her new chromed out kicks.

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http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2015/10/11/serena-at-new-museum/feed/0image/jpegSecurity at MoMA PS1http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2015/01/24/security-at-moma-ps1/
http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2015/01/24/security-at-moma-ps1/#commentsSat, 24 Jan 2015 03:47:46 +0000adminhttp://www.babesatthemuseum.com/?p=6034Remember that quick-witted 10th grade teacher who had awful style but knew just the way to simultaneously put you in your place while making you look up to her? That’s exactly how I feel about the stern demeanor from security guards and their occasional fun-crushing in the name of something you respect, like art. (photo by Xavier Aaronson)]]>

Remember that quick-witted 10th grade teacher who had awful style but knew just the way to simultaneously put you in your place while making you look up to her? That’s exactly how I feel about the stern demeanor from security guards and their occasional fun-crushing in the name of something you respect, like art. (photo by Xavier Aaronson)

]]>http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2015/01/24/security-at-moma-ps1/feed/0image/jpegGita at MoMA PS1http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2014/12/24/gita-at-moma-ps1/
http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2014/12/24/gita-at-moma-ps1/#commentsWed, 24 Dec 2014 17:27:35 +0000adminhttp://www.babesatthemuseum.com/?p=6025 Gita Blak stood out from the crowd like a human sparkler with the most subtle of incandescence. (Photo by Xavier Aaronson) ]]>

Gita Blak stood out from the crowd like a human sparkler with the most subtle of incandescence. (Photo by Xavier Aaronson)

]]>http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2014/12/24/gita-at-moma-ps1/feed/0image/jpegLet’s Not and Say We Did: @Largehttp://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2014/11/08/lets-not-and-say-we-did-large/
http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2014/11/08/lets-not-and-say-we-did-large/#commentsSat, 08 Nov 2014 17:04:39 +0000by Marie-Clare Treseder Gorhamhttp://www.babesatthemuseum.com/?p=5957“With Wind,” an installation at @Large: Ai Weiwei on Alcatraz – AFP Photo by Noah Berger Let’s Not and Say We Did is a new Babes At The Museum series that reviews art exhibits without actually attending them. Why peel off your pajamas and physically drag yourself to a museum, when our eyeballs are so tightly fastened to our multifarious display screens that a noteworthy chunk of our art consumption and critique is absorbed through some of our favorite portals like Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter. In this first installment, our bodacious ink slinger Marie-Clare Treseder Gorham ”attends” the Ai Weiwei’s @Large exhibit at Alcatraz and culls some of social media’s yays, nays, and whatevs to offer a glimpse into what people —who actually attended the show — are saying about the artwork. Ai Weiwei’s latest exhibit @Large unveiled on September 27th at the infamous island-cum-jail Alcatraz. Exploring themes of isolation and human rights, the exhibit heroicizes whistleblowers and prisoners of conscience from varying eras through, in the case of one installation, colorful Legos. Alcatraz island, nestled in San Francisco’s bay, is an appropriate site for the display, given its politically charged history and flair for internment. Now a [...]]]>

Let’s Not and Say We Did is a new Babes At The Museum series that reviews art exhibits without actually attending them.

Why peel off your pajamas and physically drag yourself to a museum, when our eyeballs are so tightly fastened to our multifarious display screens that a noteworthy chunk of our art consumption and critique is absorbed through some of our favorite portals like Instagram, Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter.

In this first installment, our bodacious ink slinger Marie-Clare Treseder Gorham ”attends” the Ai Weiwei’s @Large exhibit at Alcatraz and culls some of social media’s yays, nays, and whatevs to offer a glimpse into what people —who actually attended the show — are saying about the artwork.

Ai Weiwei’s latest exhibit @Large unveiled on September 27th at the infamous island-cum-jail Alcatraz. Exploring themes of isolation and human rights, the exhibit heroicizes whistleblowers and prisoners of conscience from varying eras through, in the case of one installation, colorful Legos.

Alcatraz island, nestled in San Francisco’s bay, is an appropriate site for the display, given its politically charged history and flair for internment. Now a popular tourist attraction, it’s unlikely its federal forefathers would have anticipated its latest chrysalis as an artistic landmark.

Confined in China, Ai Weiwei has served as a conductor of sorts. Incapable of visiting the exhibit himself, the artist has had to delegate the assembly of all his installations. While the legitimacy of Ai’s work isn’t slighted by the lack of the artist’s presence, it does call into contention concepts of agency, authorship, and the rising role of virtual reality in our daily lives.

In lieu of joining the throng of tourists and loud-talking pseudo-intellectuals, (and inspired by my editor’s suggestion), I am undertaking an unusual form of review by not going. Instead, I’ve brought the best of the Internet to your front door.

Instagram is a notably nice place. It’s culture has developed, since its inception in 2010, into fitness-flexing, juice-cleansing, Soylent-friendly kind of platform. It stands to reason that its inhabitants (literally) share the love, making posts critical of @Large few and far between. Instead, #aiweiweialcatraz is brimming with potties overflowing with porcelain flowers, dragon selfies, and positive energy.

Twitter is normally a platform riddled with debate, though the linguistic limitations are such that rarely are they satisfying. I was surprised, therefore, when my attempts to tease out the saucier side turned up snake eyes. Instead celebrity endorsements and Facebook provided the ultimate anti-climax, delivering nothing but advertisement equivalents.

For all my net-tective work, I was unable to secure any negative reviews (though the night is young). Leading me, philosophy degree be damned, to draw the ad populum conclusion: the exhibition must be awesome! Exhibit runs until April 26.

#aiweiweialcatraz may be the reigning hashtag, but let me supply you with a few of my contributions to the cause:

#legomyweiwei

#releasethedragon

#theartistisnotpresent

Keep tagging ya’ll

]]>http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2014/11/08/lets-not-and-say-we-did-large/feed/0image/jpegWe Spent Halloween at the New Museumhttp://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2014/11/03/we-spent-halloween-at-the-new-museum/
http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2014/11/03/we-spent-halloween-at-the-new-museum/#commentsMon, 03 Nov 2014 00:51:13 +0000adminhttp://www.babesatthemuseum.com/?p=5913Pari Dust bodaciously skeletal Gerard & Kely’s “P.O.L.E.” installation Last Friday, the New Museum hosted an early evening Halloween party. They invited its members and handpicked je ne sais qui from NYC’s art, film and fashion circles. That day, I guzzled the Halloween Kool-Aid and got swept down a river of costume frenzy upon which I was swimming madly as a party-thirsty shark. There’s something eerie and bemusing about creeping through a museum as overgrown children donning masks and temporary face paint bumble around the galleries. There was a medusa, two Frida Kahlhos, double unicorn action, a six-foot tall weed leaf, and a too-lifelike-for-comfort Bret Michaels. Far from dastardly, the ghoulish festivities were filled with well-mannered chatter and excited curiosity over each others’ elaborate and sometimes obscure costumes, all while surrounded by large-scale paintings by Chris Ofili and an installation by Lili Reynaud-Dewar. I wouldn’t call it a rager but it was the snackiest of warm-up parties with the right kind of early evening punch to the sternum before heading into a long night leading into an early grave. Hit this for more photos: Two unicorns heads are better than one. Old dude was not in costume [...]]]>

Last Friday, the New Museum hosted an early evening Halloween party. They invited its members and handpicked je ne sais qui from NYC’s art, film and fashion circles.

That day, I guzzled the Halloween Kool-Aid and got swept down a river of costume frenzy upon which I was swimming madly as a party-thirsty shark.

There’s something eerie and bemusing about creeping through a museum as overgrown children donning masks and temporary face paint bumble around the galleries.

There was a medusa, two Frida Kahlhos, double unicorn action, a six-foot tall weed leaf, and a too-lifelike-for-comfort Bret Michaels. Far from dastardly, the ghoulish festivities were filled with well-mannered chatter and excited curiosity over each others’ elaborate and sometimes obscure costumes, all while surrounded by large-scale paintings by Chris Ofili and an installation by Lili Reynaud-Dewar.

I wouldn’t call it a rager but it was the snackiest of warm-up parties with the right kind of early evening punch to the sternum before heading into a long night leading into an early grave.

I really wasn’t THAT angry that Garbage Pail Kids Acne Amy blew my shark head out of the water.

Look at those eyes! Way to fully embody your costume, bro.

]]>http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2014/11/03/we-spent-halloween-at-the-new-museum/feed/0image/jpegJanelle at MoMA PS1http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2014/09/14/janelle-at-moma-ps1/
http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2014/09/14/janelle-at-moma-ps1/#commentsSun, 14 Sep 2014 20:08:08 +0000adminhttp://www.babesatthemuseum.com/?p=5898Finding the measure of a babe is as much about the intangible charms that light up an interaction as the clothes that keep them incandescent. Janelle was leaving the museum just as we were entering it. She offered us a generous u-turn after asking if she’d join us on a whimsical stroll through the Maris Lassnig exhibition. Who would have known our brief encounter would be crowned with an impromptu tango. Janelle is a writer and when the computer screen make her eyes feel like their melting, she punches bags until her hands hurt. Click here for more photos of Janelle cutting a rug with Isaiah, MoMA PS1′s finest of security guards. (Photos by Xavier Aaronson) ]]>

Finding the measure of a babe is as much about the intangible charms that light up an interaction as the clothes that keep them incandescent.

Janelle was leaving the museum just as we were entering it. She offered us a generous u-turn after asking if she’d join us on a whimsical stroll through the Maris Lassnig exhibition. Who would have known our brief encounter would be crowned with an impromptu tango.

Janelle is a writer and when the computer screen make her eyes feel like their melting, she punches bags until her hands hurt.

Click here for more photos of Janelle cutting a rug with Isaiah, MoMA PS1′s finest of security guards.

]]>http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2014/09/14/janelle-at-moma-ps1/feed/0image/jpegJennifer at Pace Galleryhttp://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2014/08/14/jennifer-at-pace-gallery/
http://www.babesatthemuseum.com/2014/08/14/jennifer-at-pace-gallery/#commentsThu, 14 Aug 2014 02:33:23 +0000adminhttp://www.babesatthemuseum.com/?p=5894We spotted Jennifer completely engulfed in Tara Donovan’s razor-sharp fuzzball installation at the Pace Gallery. So engrossed in fact, she took a bow to acknowledge applause of Donovan’s ability to create a structure that changes your perspective as you navigate around its entire surface. ]]>

We spotted Jennifer completely engulfed in Tara Donovan’s razor-sharp fuzzball installation at the Pace Gallery. So engrossed in fact, she took a bow to acknowledge applause of Donovan’s ability to create a structure that changes your perspective as you navigate around its entire surface.